Ashulia police arrest two suspects of Shaktiman murder

Police arrested two persons in Ashulia on Saturday for their suspected links to the murder of Naniarchar upazila chairman Shaktiman Chakma.

Both of the arrestees, Ripon Chakma and Shunil Tripura, are residents of Naniarchar in Rangamati.

On information from locals, police detained them in Burirbazar area while the two were distributing “provocative leaflets” among the Chakma community living there, said Javed Masud, inspector (investigation) of Ashulia Police Station in Dhaka.

Unidentified miscreants shot the chairman to death in front of the Upazila Parishad Complex on May 3. The next day, five people were killed in a gun attack when the victims were going to the funeral of Shaktiman in Naniarchar.